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Published online 8 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.229
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Thinking caps reveal how pigeons find their way
Scientists monitor the brains of homing pigeons on the wing.
Neuroscientists have fitted pigeons with recorders that pick up brain activity as the birds fly. The devices confirm that the birds really do use features from a landscape to find their way home.
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Additional information about the logging technology used in this research can be found at the personal Internet site of Alexei Vyssotski, - www.vyssotski.ch. The first version of the EEG recorders (“Thinking capsâ€) and general description of the methodology is given in the article, - Vyssotski, A.L. et al. J. Neurophysiol. 95: 1263-1273 (2006).